Archive 2021

Food waste, the formation of a strategic plan for energy and the climate are top of the agenda for the House environment committee and the ‘parallel parliament’ for the environment, ...

Brazil’s world famous Maracana stadium is to get a new name, after the Rio de Janeiro state legislature voted to change its official title to the Edson Arantes do ...

Local activist has called on people to walk in migrants’ shoes this Saturday in a 20km hike from Kokkinotrimithia to Nicosia’s old city centre. Starting from the metal gate ...

Taylor Swift has beef with this show featuring Georgia, a young mother moving with her teenage daughter and nine-year-old son to a New England town for a new beginning after ...

A livestream camera at a New Zealand nature reserve has caught a Royal Albatross making an awkward landing, with the video of the faceplanting now propelling the bird to fame. ...

In this video, we head over to France’s Marseille for a Covid-free tour of its highlights. One of Europe’s oldest cities, founded around 600 B.C.E. and known ...

Mexico’s government is worried the new U.S. administration’s asylum policies are stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime, according to officials and internal assessments seen ...

In this video, yogi and mystic Sadhguru, counsels parents on the task of bringing up children, urging them to allow every kid to become their own person, and not merely ...

Cyprus-born multimedia artist Irene Kattou has been chosen to represent Cyprus at this year’s Venice exhibition, which is titled The Body Language. Her work, titled Venus Vain is a ...

The Nicosia district court remanded a man for four days on Wednesday on suspicion of grooming a child for sexual exploitation using social media, police said. The suspect was arrested ...

The Famagusta reference hospital is currently 96 per cent full, its medical director Dr Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Wednesday. She said that 72 patients were being treated at the hospital, with the ...

Juventus suffered an evening of agonising deja vu on Tuesday. The Italian champions’ last-16 second leg against 10-man Porto provided enthralling entertainment for the neutral. But after 120 minutes of breathless ...

Japan has decided to stage this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics without overseas spectators due to public concern about COVID-19, two government sources with knowledge of the matter told ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou If you are unfamiliar with Irishisms, ‘gab’ is equal to chat. We Gaels are supposed to have ‘the gift of the gab’. If ...

The bill for the creation of a separate ministry of culture was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Education minister Prodromos Prodromou announced on Twitter. Culture currently comes under the ...

In this video we view highlights of the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, an important Italian painter of the Baroque era and a follower of Caravaggio – as well as one of ...

The European Commission on Wednesday announced the launch of the ‘EU Scholarships for the Turkish Cypriot community Programme for the Academic Year 2021/22’ funded under the Aid Programme. In this round, ...

The European Commission has reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer for the supply of four million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines for Member States in the next two weeks in order ...

People with a disability in Cyprus experienced the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2019, Eurostat has reported. The housing cost overburden rate is defined as the ...

Shepherd’s pie is a classic comfort food recipe that’s healthy, hearty and filling. The bottom layer is a simple a mix of ground lamb and vegetables, simmered into ...

The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 that has spread around the world since it was first discovered in Britain late last year is between 30% and 100% more deadly than previous strains, ...

Two more children aged four and seven have been transferred to the paediatric ward at Makarios hospital with coronavirus, director of the ward Avraam Elia said on Wednesday. The two ...

Just as Cyprus began to raise its hopes of an influx of British tourists from the end of May, and with preparations underway to take bookings from April1, according to ...

Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Wednesday it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove ...